In a new interview with Cassius Morris, Toto founder Steve Lukather’s son Trev Lukather reminisced about the day he met Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. As it appears from his words, he was paranoid while meeting them because he was stoned. He recalled:
“The tour manager comes out and says, ‘Gene and Paul will see you now.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ They bring us to the room with Gene and Paul in the whole get-up. The whole makeup and everything. It’s like 20 minutes away from the show and Gene says, ‘It’s little Luke, come here.’ I go like close man, I’m looking up, I’m like ‘Oh my Gosh,’ I’m seeing everything up close and I’m just blazing dude. I’m trying to keep my composure and I don’t know how I did.”
His father, the Toto rocker, was in the same situation as his soon as well. Trev explained what happened once they were out of the dressing room:
“Poor dad, too, he was pretty stoned as well. We walked out of that dressing room, the curtain closes and my pap and I hit the floor laughing at how we even got through it because we were just so out of our minds.”
Considering the fact that Kiss members are anti-alcohol and anti-drugs, the meeting made him ‘paranoid.’ He continued:
“That was in the back of my mind too. The paranoia was in full swing and I was just trying to keep my composure but they’ll always be a memory.”
The Reason Kiss Are Sober
Ace Frehley has been sober for 18 years now. In terms of staying sober, Frehley revealed that he had to sever connections with all the people he used to engage in drug and alcohol use with, and as it seems, he is aware of the actions the substance use had caused him:
“I can’t deny that my drinking and drug use eventually became highly disruptive and problematic. Considering all the crazy things I’ve done in my life, by all rights I shouldn’t even be alive. Car accidents, drug overdoses, you name it, I’ve been there. Thrown in jail.”
In addition to the former Kiss rocker, Gene Simmons too is one of the sober members. Simmons expressed that he was determined not to subject his mother to any additional suffering beyond what she had already endured. Flora Klein, who passed away in December 2018 at the age of 93, was a survivor of the Holocaust.
In an interview, the bassist mentioned that he refrains from drinking alcohol, even during social events:
“I literally never drink. Privately or publicly. I simply don’t like the taste or the smell of anything with alcohol in it. I have never been drunk in my life and have never taken more than a sip of anything, and hated it every time. I will toast just to be social, but that’s it.”
You can watch the interview below.
